diff --git a/tools/asciiman.awk b/tools/asciiman.awk
index 6db5695..55330ad 100644
--- a/tools/asciiman.awk
+++ b/tools/asciiman.awk
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ NR == 1 {
 		fatal("expected an empty line after the header")
 
 	# Requesting tbl(1), even though we currently do not support tables.
-	print "'\\\\"" t"
+	print "'\\\" t"
 	print ".TH \"" toupper(name) "\" \"" section "\""
 
 	# Hyphenation is indeed rather annoying, in particular with long links.